No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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